Benjamin Hardin Helm

Benjamin Hardin Helm (2 June 1831-31 September 1863) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and the brother-in-law of Abraham Lincoln.

Biography
Benjamin Hardin Helm was born in Bardstown, Kentucky in 1831, the son of governor John L. Helm, and he graduated from West Point in 1851. He became a lawyer in 1853 after graduating from the Harvard School of Law, and he was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives from Hardin County in 1855. From 1856 to 1858, he served as state attorney for the 3rd district, and he married Mary Todd Lincoln's half-sister Emilie Todd in 1856. His brother-in-law, President Abraham Lincoln, offered him the rank of Paymaster of the US Army at the start of the American Civil War in 1861, but Helm sided with the Confederacy and raised the 1st Kentucky Cavalry for the Confederate States Army. He served under Simon Bolivar Buckner and John C. Breckinridge before joining Braxton Bragg's army, taking part in the Vicksburg campaign and the campaigns in Tennessee. On 20 September 1863, Helm was shot in the chest by a Union sharpshooter at the Battle of Chickamauga, and he fell from his horse after a few minutes. When he found out that the Confederates had ultimately won the battle, he muttered, "Victory! Victory! Victory!" before dying the next day of his wounds.